272 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



P. gamma since 1879. — Miss Hinchcllff ; Instow, North 

 Devon, November 13th. 



Captures in August. — During August of the present year I 

 walked through Surrey, Sussex and West Kent, and it is remark- 

 able that though Vanessa cardui turned up at Littleharapton, 

 New Shoreham, Guildford and other places, often being abun- 

 dant, and usually in very good condition, another equally 

 uncertain species, Colias edusa, was not observed at all. I caught 

 an interesting fly, which proved to be Asilus crabroniformis, on 

 Witley Common. At Addington I took one specimen of Plinthus 

 caliginosus, and another interesting capture was Hesperia comma, 

 which was not rare on the hills east of Guildford. Satyrus 

 semele was very abundant on Witley Common, and I took one 

 near Guildford. — T. D. Cockerell ; 51, Woodstock Koad, 

 Bedford Park, Chiswick, W., November 6. 



British Butterflies. — I shall be much obliged if any 

 of your readers can give me descriptions of the ova of Pieris 

 cratcegi, Anthocharis cardamines, Leucophasia sinapis, Colias 

 edusa, and C. hyale ; or if they cannot do so personally, will they 

 inform me in what work I may find such descriptions ; also 

 if Lyccena acis, Thecla pruni, Papilio machaon, and Leucophasia 

 sinapis have been taken plentifully this year, and if so, where ? — 

 W. Harcourt Bath; Sutton Park, Warwickshire, Nov. 1884. 



[In the last part of the French ' Annales ' is an important 

 paper by T. Goossens, on " the eggs of Lepidoptera " (Ann. Soc. 

 Ent. Fr., ser. 6, vol. iv., pp. 129 — 146 ; pi. 5) ; it is illustrated by 

 a beautiful coloured plate, on which the eggs of forty-two species 

 are figured. Fig. 32 shows the egg of Aporia cratagi ; fig. 23, 

 Anthocharis belia (closely allied to A. cardamines); and fig. 34, 

 that of Colias hyale. The egg of L. sinapis is described at Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. iii., 211 (and cf. Newman's Brit. Butt., p. 154), and 

 Mr. Hodgkinson speaks of it as "just the shape of a conical 

 shot" (Ent. vii., 175). The egg of C. edusa is figured at Entom. 

 xi., 49.— E.A.F.] 



Deilephila lineata at Sandwich. — Having been located in 

 Sandwich during the past summer, I had the pleasure of 

 capturing, on July 26th, a fine specimen of D. lineata. It was at 

 rest on a granite street-crossing, and without doubt would have 

 been crushed had I not rescued it from its perilous position ; as 



